Format Online paper / PDF "An ordinary round-trip flight search could involve up to 100 million or more possible flight combinations in the early 2000s." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Source authors Carl de Marcken Source year 2003 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "The global airline-search ecosystem encompassed roughly 800 airlines when de Marcken described ITA Software in 2003." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Source authors Carl de Marcken Source year 2003 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "ITA Software developed search and optimization engines that combined flight schedules, fares and seat availability to return priced itineraries." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Source authors Carl de Marcken Source year 2003 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Google acquired ITA Software in April 2011 after the company’s flight-search technology had become an important part of online travel infrastructure." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title ITA Software acquisition cleared for takeoff Source authors Jeff Huber Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Book / Offline paper "Complex navigation tasks can exhibit cognitive properties at the level of an organized human and technical system, rather than only within individual participants." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Cognition in the Wild Source authors Edwin Hutchins Source year 1995 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "A commercial aircraft cockpit can be studied as a distributed cognitive system whose performance depends on people, representations and instruments working together." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds Source authors Edwin Hutchins Source year 1995 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Global COVID-19 vaccination depended on large-scale coordination and distribution, with COVAX alone delivering nearly two billion doses." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title COVID-19 vaccinations shift to regular immunisation as COVAX draws to a close Source authors CEPI; Gavi; UNICEF; World Health Organization Source year 2023 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Coordinated teams of engineers, scientists and machines successfully delivered NASA’s Opportunity rover to Mars and operated it for nearly fifteen years." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title NASA's Record-Setting Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End Source authors NASA Source year 2019 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Jetliners suffered roughly one accident per million flights in 2025." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title IATA Releases 2025 Safety Report Source authors International Air Transport Association Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "A large commercial jet can cruise at approximately 500 miles per hour while carrying around 300 passengers." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Boeing: 777 Design Highlights Source authors Boeing Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance low
